HO-551 Oakland Manor Washhouse and Icehouse (The Eye of the Camel, Rose Price Cottage)
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
HO-551 Oakland Manor Washhouse and Icehouse (The Eye of the Camel, Rose Price Cottage) Architectural Survey File This is the architectural survey file for this MIHP record. The survey file is organized reverse- chronological (that is, with the latest material on top). It contains all MIHP inventory forms, National Register nomination forms, determinations of eligibility (DOE) forms, and accompanying documentation such as photographs and maps. Users should be aware that additional undigitized material about this property may be found in on-site architectural reports, copies of HABS/HAER or other documentation, drawings, and the “vertical files” at the MHT Library in Crownsville. The vertical files may include newspaper clippings, field notes, draft versions of forms and architectural reports, photographs, maps, and drawings. Researchers who need a thorough understanding of this property should plan to visit the MHT Library as part of their research project; look at the MHT web site (mht.maryland.gov) for details about how to make an appointment. All material is property of the Maryland Historical Trust. Last Updated: 02-07-2013 HO-551 'Oakland Manof Washhouse and Icehouse (Eye of the Camel'; Rose Price Cottage) 5432 Vantage Point Road Columbia Description: The stone washhouse is located about 80 feet east of the main house on the'Dakland Manof property. It is a 1-1/2 story three-bay by two-bay rubble stone structure with a gable roof that has asphalt shingles and a north-south ridge. There is a cross-gable on the west elevation and an interior brick chimney on the south elevation, and a large new addition on the north end. The building is banked into the hill on the west with an addition on the east side that is 1-1/2 stories tall with an exposed basement. This addition is two bays by two bays, with a rubble stone foundation, frame walls with asbestos shingle siding, and a shed roof that slopes down to the east. The interior of the washhouse has one room in the stone section on the first story, with carpeting, paneling, and drywall on the ceiling. The basement has a fireplace on the south elevation. The west wall has CMU infill set south of center that closes off the doorway to the icehouse. The icehouse is located between the mansion house and the wash house, is completely underground, and has no part of its structure visible above ground (and apparently never did). The icehouse is a circular, domed, rubble stone structure and is approximately 18 feet in diameter and approximately 25 feet high, with a square opening at the top of the dome that has been closed off Significance: The'Dakland Manof house (HO-32) and several outbuildings were designed by Abraham Lerew of Baltimore for Charles Sterrett Ridgely and built in 1810-11. The plans for the mansion house, carriage house, and dog house survive, but there are no surviving plans for any other buildings. The earliest documentation of the wash house and ice house comes from the 1838 sale ad for the property. The wash house is of a different design than the other outbuildings designed by Lerew, suggesting that it was added later, probably after Ridgely sold the farm to Robert Oliver in 1825. Presumably, the icehouse was added at the same time, since they are connected It is not known whether the wash house changed functions later in the nineteenth, or in the first half of the twentieth centuries. The dormer window and the drop pendants were probably added later in the nineteenth century to modernize it stylistically. Miriam J. Keller purchased'Dakland Manof in 1949 and converted several buildings on the farm to dwellings, including the wash house. She built a frame addition onto the back of the old washhouse and renovated the old structure for her daughter and son-in-law to live in for a year. An addition was put on the north end and the building became the center for African American history and culture in Howard County. Maryland Historical Trust Inventory No. HO-551 Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties Form 1. Name of Property (indicate preferred name) historic Oakland Manor Washhouse and Icehouse other Eye of the Camel, Rose Price Cottage 2. Location street and number 5432 Vantage Point Road not for publication city, town Columbia vicinity county Howard 3. Owner of Property (give names and mailing addresses of all owners) name Columbia Association, Inc. street and number 10221 Wincopin Circle telephone 410-730-4744 city, town Columbia state MD zip code 21044-3423 .4. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Howard County Courthouse tax map and parcel: 30-308 city, town Ellicott City liber 3324 folio 191 5. Primary Location of Additional Data Contributing Resource in National Register District Contributing Resource in Local Historic District Determined Eligible for the National Register/Maryland Register Determined Ineligible for the National Register/Maryland Register Recorded by HABS/HAER Historic Structure Report or Research Report Other 6. Classification Category Ownership Current Function Resource Count agriculture landscape Contributing Noncontributing district public commerce/trade X recreation/culture 1_ 0^ buildings X building(s) JL private defense religion 0_ 0^ sites structure both domestic social 1_ 0^ structures site education transportation 0^ 0^ objects object funerary work in progress 2_ 0_ Total government unknown health care vacant/not in use Number of Contributing Resources industry other; previously listed in the Inventory 1 7. Description inventory NO. HO-551 Condition excellent deteriorated _XL good ruins fair altered Prepare both a one paragraph summary and a comprehensive description of the resource and its various elements as it exists today. Summary: The stone washhouse is located about 80 feet east of the main house on the "Oakland Manor" property. It is a 1-1/2 story three- bay by two-bay rubble stone structure with a gable roof that has asphalt shingles and a north-south ridge. There is a cross-gable on the west elevation and an interior brick chimney on the south elevation, and a large new addition on the north end. The building is banked into the hill on the west with an addition on the east side that is 1-1/2 stories tall with an exposed basement. This addition is two bays by two bays, with a rubble stone foundation, frame walls with asbestos shingle siding, and a shed roof that slopes down to the east. The interior of the washhouse has one room in the stone section on the first story, with carpeting, paneling, and drywall on the ceiling. The basement has a fireplace on the south elevation. The west wall has CMU infill set south of center that closes off the doorway to the icehouse. The icehouse is located between the mansion house and the wash house, is completely underground, and has no part of its structure visible above ground (and apparently never did). The icehouse is a circular, domed, rubble stone structure and is approximately 18 feet in diameter and approximately 25 feet high, with a square opening at the top of the dome that has been closed off Description: "Oakland Manor" Washhouse (aka Rose Price Cottage, Eye of the Camel) The stone washhouse is located about 80 feet east of the main house on the "Oakland Manor" property. It is a 1-1/2 story three- bay by two-bay rubble stone structure with a gable roof that has asphalt shingles and a north-south ridge. There is a cross-gable on the west elevation and an interior brick chimney on the south elevation, and a large new addition on the north end. The building is banked into the hill on the west with an addition on the east side that is 1-1/2 stories tall with an exposed basement. This addition is two bays by two bays, with a rubble stone foundation, frame walls with asbestos shingle siding, and a shed roof that slopes down to the east. The west elevation has a new door in the center bay with a cut stone sill and lintel. The door has a beaded-interior-edge frame. To either side is a six-over-six sash with a beaded frame with a wood sill and a cut stone lintel. The cross gable is parged and has a round-arched six-over-six sash with a wood sill. There is a wood box cornice with returns, and the soffit of the comice has three slats with gaps between them. The south elevation foundation has a six-over-six sash in the east bay with a plain frame and a wood sill. The first story has two six-over-six sash with wood sills, beaded frames, and cut stone lintels. The gable end has two six-over- sash with wood sills and parged lintels. The sills are set below the eave line. There is a wood finial at the ridge with a drop pendant, and the top of this is broken off The north end of the ridge also has a drop pendant. On the south elevation of the addition, the foundation has a boarded-up door and a six-over-sash in a plain frame to the east. Both the first and second stories have a six-over-six sash in a plain frame in the center. The east elevation of the addition has German siding on the basement and first story and raw wood sheathing on the upper story. There is a boarded-up window opening in the south bay of both the first and upper stories, with no other openings. The north bay of the stone building has a boarded-up opening in the foundation and the first story.